Pam Hupp · QAnon · Cell Phones
Plus: Come hang out with me!
Allen v. Farrow · Andy Mills Ouster · Abolishing The Death Penalty
Plus black-market gold, a Village real-estate grift, and more
What Case Should Be The Next 'Surviving R. Kelly'?
You know the story by now: though R. Kelly had faced allegations of rape for years, it wasn’t until an FBI agent watched Surviving R. Kelly that law...
Bill Cosby · Delphi Murders · Crater Lake
Plus: The headlines that'll eventually be ripped from
Rae Carruth · Rosa Jimenez · Real Estate
Plus cop games, the other Charles Bronson, and more
Jack Palladino · Marilyn Manson · T.I.
Plus: You'll never look at spam calls the same way again
January Bonus Review: We Keep The Dead Close
It's a great book, until...it isn't, but that shift is worth unpacking too.
The Investigation · The Widower · The Chippendales
Plus Takeshi69 and the Canadian Mob. Must be Monday.
Checking In On Your True-Crime Pandemic
Get ready, everyone: every news outlet you can think of is readying their “one year in lockdown” packages, full of frustrated salon owners, angry anti-...
Green River · Red Justice · Scott Peterson
Plus: A 2010 memoir gets a Kingsman
The Body Farm · Jill Harth vs. Trump · Dryden, NY vs. fate
Plus Andy Mills, an upstate fugitive, and a poll
Unpublishing Crime · Robert Downey Jr. · Amanda Knox
Plus: a missing person podcast
"Ovation on the streets, Oxygen in the sheets" · Hallmark true crime
Plus Discovery+ premieres, Holmesian motives, and more
Questioning The Taste Level: The Tackiest Titles In True Crime
Inspired by both the end of the era vulgaris in Washington this week and a related Twitter thread in which the more harmless stupidities of the former...
The Serpent · The Pembrokeshire Murders · Dosa King
Hope you've got room in your ears for some podcasts
January 20, 2021
“In Tish James we trust.” But until she drops a literal ton of filings on the outgoing administration, we can gather here if needed. — SDB
Phil Spector · The Soprano State · American Greed
Plus art looters, Bigfoot, and more soothing longreads than you can shake a stick at
Where To Begin, Mr. President?
E. Jean Carroll @ejeancarrollIs Trump KIDDING? Sending Heidi Stirrup to the DOJ to get dirt on me? The dirtiest thing that has ever happened to me is TRUMP....
Mostly Harmless · Black Hands · Impeachment
Also: Lifetime announces its true crime slate
More DB Cooper · Netflix's Night Stalker · The Navy-Vets Con
Plus new trailers, upcoming premieres, and the soothing properties of forgery